Tom Keegan

Keegan: Complex simple in Utopia
By Tom Keegan
May 12, 2008
Change the name of Lawrence to Utopia, and all of a sudden building a new sports complex doesn’t seem such a daunting task.
Keegan: MU ace puts on a show
By Tom Keegan
May 10, 2008
The rhythm of the game of baseball encourages conversation for those watching, at least when the loudspeakers aren’t violating the peaceful air with annoying racket.
Keegan: MU ace fearless, talented
By Tom Keegan
May 7, 2008
The most dominant college athlete to visit Lawrence since Michael Beasley brings his stuff to town Friday night for the opener of a three-game series at Hoglund Ballpark. Chances are you won’t recognize his name.
Keegan: K.C. team atypical
By Tom Keegan
May 3, 2008
Acronyms tend to trigger predictable images. Play the word-association game with several listed below and see if you don’t spit out the same responses.
Keegan: Mangino pleased with draft
By Tom Keegan
April 28, 2008
Making a bowl game, any bowl game, was considered a reasonable goal for the Kansas University football program. Coach Mark Mangino wanted more. He wanted a BCS bowl game. He got it, winning the Orange Bowl to cap off a stunning 12-1 season.
Keegan: Meet the next Mario
By Tom Keegan
April 24, 2008
The unofficial changing of the guards took place Wednesday afternoon on the campus of Kansas University, where the guy leaving spoke into television cameras and the guy who might replace him was given his first taste of Lawrence out of the public eye.
Keegan: Another moment for Hadl
By Tom Keegan
April 23, 2008
The time came when the arm lost its zip. The knees cried for relief. The reflexes just weren’t the same, and John Willard Hadl, who never missed a game because of injury, had to put the shoulder pads away for good and end his Hall of Fame-worthy football career.
Keegan: KU’s Self worth big bucks
By Tom Keegan
April 21, 2008
Sticker shock long ago stopped blowing away fans of professional sports teams. We have the Darren Dreiforts of the world to thank for that.
Keegan: Touted hoopster doesn’t look it
By Tom Keegan
April 20, 2008
Few of those sitting in the sun at Memorial Stadium early Saturday afternoon had any clue that months from now the girl wearing “Sequoyah” on her jersey and handing the baton to her sister in the 4X200-meter high school relay race could transform the perception of a Kansas University athletic program.
Keegan: Valvano system works
By Tom Keegan
April 19, 2008
The way Jim Valvano stared cancer in the face and laughed at it, even as it ravaged his body, rightly has made him one of the most inspirational figures in sports history. He knew the disease was killing him, but he wasn’t about to let it kill his sense of humor, his spirit, his lust for life.
Keegan: Another Arizona on tap?
By Tom Keegan
April 14, 2008
Football still so dominated the emotions of the masses on the Sunday night of Thanksgiving weekend that the visit of a touted Arizona basketball team, which should have been the highlight of the nonconference home schedule, didn’t generate much excitement.
Keegan: Realistic future awaits
By Tom Keegan
April 11, 2008
Take a cork off a bottle. Shove all the feelings you have right this minute for your favorite university’s basketball coach into that bottle. Put the cork back on it. Store it in a safe place.
Keegan: Let’s not forget
By Tom Keegan
April 10, 2008
Lost amid the euphoria of Kansas University pulling off the cardiac comeback of the millennium to win its third NCAA basketball championship are two meaningful events that will take place Saturday.
Keegan: Kansas’ best — ever
By Tom Keegan
April 8, 2008
The shot was in the air as the game clock ticked down to 2.1 seconds. The right guy shot it. Just another big shot in a lifetime full of them for Mario Chalmers, who witnessed a Final Four in the same building in 2004. It misses and it goes down as another near miss for another outstanding Kansas team.
Keegan: Calipari, Self cut from same cloth
By Tom Keegan
April 7, 2008
Memphis basketball coach John Calipari could buy a mattress store or three with cash today if he so desired, but it wasn’t always that way.

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